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Shelley Wong [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
San Francisco, CA
California US
Bio: 

Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, May 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. A queer, fourth-generation Chinese American poet, she lives in San Francisco.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Twitter/X: 
shhelleywong
Website: 
http://www.shelley-wong.com/ [2]
Prizes won: 

YesYes Books Pamet River Prize (2019), Headlands Center for the Arts affiliate (2019-2022), Alice James Books prize finalist (2019); Palm Beach Poetry Festival Kundiman fellowship (2019); Peter Taylor fellowship from Kenyon Review Writers Workshop (2018); Pushcart Prize (2017); MacDowell fellowship (2017); Diode Editions chapbook prize (2016); Kundiman fellowship (2013)

Education: 
Ohio State University
Writers Retreats: 
Community of Writers
Headlands Center for the Arts
MacDowell
Napa Valley Writers’ Conference
Identifies as: 
Asian American
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Illness/Wellness
LGBTQ
Naturalists/Environmentalists
Schools
Teachers
Teenagers
Women
Source URL:https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/shelley_wong

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/shelley_wong [2] http://www.shelley-wong.com/